{"id":1063,"date":"2024-10-22T14:10:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T14:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/?page_id=1063"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:01:07","slug":"the-battle-of-crete-20-29-may-1941","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/collections\/historical-collection\/the-battle-of-crete-20-29-may-1941\/","title":{"rendered":"The battle of Crete 20-29 May 1941"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The legendary \u2018Battle of Crete\u2019, which is considered one of the major crucial episodes in the Second World War, was fought over the last ten days of May 1941.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The epic resistance of the island\u2019s defenders, the civilian population of men and women, against the German invaders, evoked universal admiration. The Germans were forced to deploy enormous forces on Crete. Their losses in men and materials were enormous. The supposedly invincible weapon of the parachutists was never used again in large-scale operations. Over 4,000 parachutists are buried in the German war cemetery at Malam\u00e9. Once again, the Cretans fought heroically, putting their native land and their freedom above their own life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legendary \u2018Battle of Crete\u2019, which is considered one of the major crucial episodes in the Second World War, was fought over the last ten days of May 1941.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":970,"menu_order":35,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-collections-historical.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1063","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1063\/revisions\/2409"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laoreth.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}